Spring Lake, Pennsylvania: Mammoth Discovered Here
A bronze marker and barn painting celebrate the unearthing of a Mammoth skeleton here in 1983, although both of them get the year wrong and misspell "Woolly" as "Wooly."
- Address:
- 575 Woolly Mammoth Lane, Spring Lake, PA
- Directions:
- From US-6 in Wysox turn south at the stoplight onto PA-187. Follow PA-187 south for seven miles. When the road veers left, turn right onto Moody Rd. Drive a half-mile. Turn left onto Woolly Mammoth Lane. You'll see the marker and barn murals straight ahead.
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A mammoth was found by workers dredging Spring Lake in 1983 in Bradford County.
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At the time, the press labeled the mammoth bones "the most important excavation in Pennsylvania history."